Pink and Black

I saw this alphabet set at Studio Calico the other week and really liked it. It is suitable for scrapbooking, but I thought it would look nice on cards. I received it on Tuesday and couldn't just let it sit there. So I got to work creating this 4.25 square card. I embossed the letters on black paper using pink embossing powder. I cut those out, then added the word chickadee using a Studio G rubber stamp alphabet. I added the scalloped black paper, the polka dot ribbon, and the black mat, but it felt a tad unbalanced. So I stamped this sweet little bird, embossed it, cut it out and popped it up.

Supplies:

Stamps: Noah (Studio Calico), Studio G alphabet, Sheltering Tree (gel-a-tins)

Ink: Versamark, True Black

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Pink Pirouette, Black

Accessories, etc.: Pink of Me gelly powder, pop dots, scallop punch, polka dot organdy

Happy Birthday to....

It's my birthday today. My grandma gets me to make all of her relatives' birthday cards, but I couldn't make my own now could I? So my sister was nice enough to take on the task! This is the awesome card she made! Very vibrant, and with my favorite image: Stars!

Supplies:

Stamps: Super Star by gel-a-tins, Studio g sentiment

Ink: versamark

Paper: Yoyo Yellow, shimmery green DP

Accessories, etc.: Blue and Lime EP, green eyelets, wide stitched grosgrain, crop-a-dile

Purr-fect!

I saw the latest to my local Michael's Studio G stamps and spotted this cute kitty. The card is a pretty basic design. I just felt like making something, and found that the darker grey, coral, and Caribbean looked quite nice together- kind of a retro colour scheme. The cat and letters were coloured in with a blender pen and reinker. The blender pen has a finer point than the aquapainter and it can be made into any colour of ink.

Supplies:
Stamps: Studio G: Series 7
Ink: Palette Noir, basic Grey, Cameo Coral, Cool Caribbean
Paper: Coral, Grey, White, Caribbean, Loves Me DP
Accessories, etc.: grosgrain, wavy scissors, glitter, blender pens

Happy Little Cupcakes

I was at Michaels the other day, picking up a few more cheap clear blocks for a Christmas card get-together, and I saw that they actually had the Series 6 studio g stamps. This birthday one was too cute to leave there, especially at $1.50 for a set of 5. I picked my paper first, from the stash. One thing I have done to make the stash a little more bearable for me as a cardmaker is cut it down to 6x6 squares. I have come to terms with that fact that scrapbooking just isn't for me right now. So, instead of leaving all that pretty paper in awkward 12x12 format, I cut a whole lot of it down into the card friendly 6x6. I have been keeping it in the Paper Trey Ink packaging. It fits 6x6 paper exactly. Just thought I'd throw that out there as a tip.

Anyway, I started with the paper. I believe this one is by One Heart, One Mind. I took my colour palette from that. It's not a 100% match, but it's close. I used Sage Shadow and Creamy Caramel for the cupcakes, with Not Quite Navy and Pumpkin Pie for the candle. I cut them out, popped them up onto a word background, put a thin layer of stickles on, and voila! Done. I have been on a square card kick lately. I made at least 3 square cards today.

Supplies:

Stamps: Birthday, series 6 by Studio G

Ink: versafine black onyx, sage, caramel, pumpkin, navy

Paper: white, sage, caramel, one heart one mind DP

Accessories, etc.: stickles, pop dots

Caribbean Flowers

I was going to update last night, but my keyboard became possessed. Seriously, it would only type backwards. One of the arrow keys was jammed, so as soon as I typed anything, it would jump back a space, thus, backwards text. It made it very hard to even log into blogger to moderate comments, nevermind an update, lol!

Anyway, it's all good now. Here's a card I made. I was feeling in mood for some Caribbean colour scheme. I actually used some Bazzill cardstock that is nearly the same tone as Cool Caribbean, but it's textured. I stamped it with the various flowers from beautiful blooms in Caribbean and White. I had this cut piece of velvet ribbon laying around, so that too got placed on the card. A couple notes about punches and these flowers: the dotted center fits nicely in the 1/2 punch. So if you screwed up and didn't get it centered (like me...) stamp another, punch it out, and attach with tape or a pop dot! The large 9-petalled flowers will just fit in the 1-3/8 circle punch. I cut mine out and mounted it on the circle instead. The birthday greeting on here is from the second batch of Studio G $1.50 clear stamps. The ink kept pilling, so I stamped it in versamark then in caribbean. That seemed to solve things. Ah, the differences between acrylic and photopolymer!

Whimsy Cake

I felt like doodling something today. So this cake was the end product. I drew it with my wacom tablet and then printed it out in a couple different sizes. I watercoloured it, cut in out, then added some stickles. The word background behind the cake is one of the sentiments from a Studio G clear set. The card is 7x4.5 in size. I also used a lot of foam tape here (as you may have guessed by the shadows. The cake is on foam, as is the entire panel.

Sparkly Pink Cake

Here's a card featuring some of the Michael's clear stamps. I stamped the "for you" once, coloured it in, then stamped into the glue pad and line it up and sprinkled glitter on it. I love this look with coloured in images! The cake only has glitter in the form of stickles on the flowers.

A few creations and more good news!

Two days ago I received notice that a project was accepted into the Papercrafts Holiday Special!! Then today, I received a notice from Cards, they have also picked up a project! And here I was thinking they'd never even received my submission!

Here are some quick cards I threw together these past 2 days. I finally picked up some decorative flowers for my cards. I had been eyeing these daisies for a while now. Finally I picked them up. I had been really wanting to pair one of my polka dot buttons with a daisy, so that's exactly what I did! As I learned on this card, it's better to use dye inks for the tone on tone stamping look. After the green galore ink had dried for a day it got this weird look. Serves me right for being too lazy to go downstairs and get the green galore dye ink pad!

My other creation is another bright and fun creation. My local Michaels FINALLY had the studio g clear stamps, so I picked them up. I really like the look of colouring the line art letters all different colours and then glitterfying it. I got that idea from Emily's ATC that I received as part of a special swap. The "you spin me round" set by gelatins worked nicely to outline the punched out image. And it just so happened to match this awesome Doodlebug paper I had picked up last weekend. I decided that the best layout to showcase the small round sentiment was one of my favorite layouts. It just works when other stuff won't!

And in non-stamping news, the tulips are ALMOST ready to open. There are about 3 or 4 that should open tomorrow as long as it's a sunny day, which it's supposed to be. I hope to take some good pictures once I'm home from work tomorrow!